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As maybe you have read
here in my Daily Skincare Routine post, currently I have no scrub/exfoliating
products in my stash – simply because even the most gentle one breaks me out.
Usually I just use oatmeal as exfoliator but you know, it’s too soft eh? No ‘real
exfoliating’ on skin, and I can’t really tell if the rough dead skin cells are
actually going away or not. So I’ve been experimenting for two weeks with stuff
in the kitchen, and ta~daaaaa ...

my very own gentle face scrub!

The exfoliator agent in
this DIY Gentle Scrub Mask is…green tea powder. I know it’s very hard to find
green tea in powder form here in Indonesia so guess what, I’m going to make my
own powder!

THINGS
YOU NEED

Green tea leaves

Tea Filter

Spoon

STEPS TO DO

Separate the dried sticks
from the leaves – simply because sticks don’t grind well later and it’s quite
harsh on skin!

After done separating,
now put the leaves into a food processor/blender.

Grind it for 2 minutes.

Put the ground tea leaves
in a tea filter. Start filtering the leaves; throw away all the big chunks.

Repeat the filtering
process twice.

Your beauty powder is
ready ~

P.S: you may repeat the
grinding or filtering process as many times as you like to get the texture that
you want!

Now that we have our
powder, let’s make the mixture ~

THINGS
YOU NEED

1 tsp Green tea powder
(yay!)

1 tsp Honey

Bowl

Spoon

½ tsp Warm water

STEPS
TO DO

Mix 1 teaspoon of green
tea powder with 1 teaspoon of honey

Stir them all-together.

Until they’re well mixed,
add ½ tsp of warm water.

check the constituency. add more/less water as you like!

Apply to your face. Let
it sit for good 15 minutes.

Splash water, then rub
with gentle circular motion (for exfoliating purpose) or rinse off (if you’re
only using it as a mask)

I quickly found that this
magical mixture works both as a homemade face scrub and simply a calming mask!
It’s all up to you because the green tea goodness still works wonder in both
way though – that’s why we let it sit for quite a while, okay? Don’t rinse off
too quick!

After using this mask/scrub,
I quickly feel my skin smoother, brighter, and more hydrated and plumped than
before. Oh yes ~ ! I recommend you to use this as a mask 3 times in a week, and
use as a scrub once a week. You can always thank me later for having clearer,
(slightly) brighter, and less oily face ;)

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And that’s all for today’s
#TuesdayTips! Toot is now upset because I don’t study instead of pampering self
and writing this post. Geez. Will be back later okay? This upcoming two weeks I
will be quite busy but I will try my best to update more.

Oh! Don’t forget to ask
me anything on my Ask.fm ♥ it feels great to receive new questions, ya know?

Who doesn’t know the
Korean TV Show ‘Get It Beauty’? Here, here! First let’s take a look on this
video below if you’re totally lost on what I’m talking right now:

Finished?

Okay. So. Get It Beauty is a famous Korean TV
Show which talks all about beauty – everything you can name from head to toe –
be it makeup or skin care tips. Since Korea is now one of the beauty trend
leaders in the world, such of a beauty show like Get It Beauty gets very
popular within everyone quickly.

Get It Beauty features some professional and famous Korean
Make Up Artists to share tips and do makeover for the lucky audiences. Every
episode of this show has different theme and topic that the advices and tips
given are based on it. Very interesting eh?

There are basically 3
main sessions in this show, the first is Blind
Test. Featured Make Up Artist of the day will have one model and demonstrate
a makeover on her, while the product names are being kept and not shown until
the audiences pick which one is the best of all the tested products. This session
is very helpful and interesting because you will judge the item based on its
performance, not from the price or the brand! It’s often proved in this test
that cheap items aren’t always worse than the more expensive ones.

The second is a Get It Beauty Self, where famous Korean
stars or actresses are featured in the show and they will discuss what products
they are wearing or their favorite items. Most of the audiences love this
session because sometimes, admit it, we wonder what is it the actresses/singers
are wearing when they’re on stage because they simply look gorgeous! Indeed, we
cannot physically be at the backstage and ask them directly ‘what was that
lipstick’ so this session of Get It Beauty is wonderful and waited by many people!

The last session is makeover. Featured Make Up Artist will
pick one lucky audience which later is called ‘Better Girls’ (and I really have
no idea why they put the word ‘Better’ for the chosen ones hmm) and do makeover
on her. While doing the makeover, the MUA will also share the some tips and
tricks, reviews, plus explaining the products used on the model according to
the main topic of that episode. This is totally different with the ‘Blind Test’
session where the product names are not shown, in this makeover session you
will be told the product names and literally drool after seeing the result on
the model.

"And we often – very often
– drool on some items but then, 20 minutes later we forget what should we pick
and the TV show is over already."

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We didn’t even remember
to write down the product names because we focused too much on the
demonstration. Ugh! That’s the worst feeling, ever.

But! Worry not, my girls.

If you are very clumsy in remembering names – I
am, you are not alone! – you can always visit W2Beauty site and click on their ‘Get It Beauty’ tab, aaaaand…shop
the cult favorites and featured products of the show right away, without no
fuss of looking pen and papers to write down the names and waste of time.

W2Beauty is a South Korea based online shop which sells popular
Korean beauty items from various brands like Peripera, Innisfree, Tony Moly,
Clio, Aritaum, and many more. If you live outside Korea like me, shopping Asian
or Korean beauty products from local or eBay sellers can make you take a deep
breath and exhale like a hippo, because the price is very steep and the mark up
is crazy. Gee! Buying things directly from Korea is great, but the shipping
price we should pay is…ahem, most of the time is way more expensive than the
items itself. W2Beauty is the
solution then, because it offers free shipping worldwide on any orders! How cool is that??

Yes the price of the
products in W2Beauty is not as cheap
as if you’re shopping directly in Korea but I think it’s cheap enough because
you don’t have to pay for the shipping fee ~

To make things even
better, W2Beauty will give you
samples/full sized products as a complimentary gift on your orders! Only $20 –
which I believe you could easily get once you shop there – and you are already
eligible to claim free mask sheet + 3 samples. Great not? ;)

Also
today I am going to give you girls $5 off voucher to shop in W2Beauty with minimum purchase of $30 –
so you’re only paying $25 in total! Yay! Simply enter this code below while
registering before cart checkout.

1918738806

Okay,
that’s all for now – I am going to watch Get It Beauty videos with English subs
in marathon aaaaaand haul something from W2Beauty as a self-birthday gift!

I can finally write a
skincare routine post. WHAT A YAY for me myself since my skin is very difficult
to deal with most products out there for being way too sensitive. Phew! But the
fuss is over now since I met these babies. I almost kiss acne goodbye if only I
were not a girl (the period thing, okay) and stayed home all day all night by
quitting university #getslapped

But things are going on –
so is my hormonal cycle and metabolism, plus the extreme weather nowadays – so I
can’t get rid of my acne by a hundred percent and hey, it’s totally normal! Nobody’s
perfect, remember?

Before continuing this
post, I’d like to rewrite a part of my disclaimer here:

I am not a professional or
a formally-educated in medical subjects. I won’t talk much about ingredients
and debate about it – google it and if you want to pick the items I mentioned
here, all the risk is on yours, since they worked on me anyway. Yes, they helped me to get through the rough skin and acne. Yes, the acne is still coming back with its friends during period and common university days.

I won’t guarantee
that by using the products stated in this post will help you to get the results
like mine. I am just sharing my experience and opinion here, may all the
contents of this post only are subjected as information and not as a persuasion
to get one or more products from the list since I am not affiliated to any
brands mentioned.

Hello June, hello
everyone! I have always loved this month since ever I could remember. Not only
that I’m going to have my birthday in two weeks (what a #kodekeras indeed LOL
but I didn’t mean it to be, or….did I?), but also the truth that June is the
last month of the first half of 2015. Phew, time flies eh? It’s like the New Year
eve was just yesterday and poof, today it’s June 3rd!

As the title of the post,
I’m going to start a new bi-weekly post series: Wednesday Wish. I will post
anything on my current wish and buy lists in this post. And to celebrate this
very first post of #WednesdayWish, I’m going to have my wishes from Wishtrend!

Wishtrend is a
South-Korea based online store which sells mainly Korean makeup and skin care
products. They, however, sell ‘exclusive’ brands (Berrisom, Elishacoy) rather
than the famous and popular one like Tonymoly or Etude House. If you’re curious
about exclusive or hard-to-find-around brands from Korea, Wishtrend may have
them! That’s why I’m super excited to build my wish list from their site.
Another good thing is, they ship to Indonesia! WORLDWIDE free shipping also will be given if you shop above $69. How
cool is that?

What if you want to shop
their bestselling products, but don’t want to spend until $69 to get the free
shipping offer? Chill, my friends! Just click the free shipping tab, and you
will quickly be on a page showing the bestselling items of Wishtrend, and you
will be eligible for free shipping on your
order regardless the amount of your total order. How cool is
that?

That’s why I cannot wait
to say my wishes! After spending like 30 minutes trolling on their site, I
finally have some *ugh* items that I really want – and soon buy it as a
self-birthday-gift:

Since the hype began, yet
until today I haven’t had the chance to get this baby on my hand. Sigh. I’m
super duper curious about this peel-off lip stain, as some reviews say that it’s
really fun to peel off – like peeling of a sticky tape from your lips, but with
an ease – the lip tint! I had my eye on two shades, which is 01 Bubble Pink and
08 Virgin Red. The red one seems so promising with that very vibrant red on the
lip swatch, don’t you agree?

I really need scrub slash
exfoliating product in my stash, like seriously. My face is so sensitive that I
can’t even use natural sugar to exfoliate it, but I know I need something that
is a liiiiittle bit harsher than the regular oatmeal that I usually use to
exfoliate my skin. This Klairs Gentle Black Sugar Scrub might be the answer. I’ve
seen many positive reviews about it and it’s not too expensive, so I will try
this one very soon too!

This pore brush from
Korea is so raved until some people made a knock-off version of it. It must be
so good that they even make the knock-offs, right? But in Wishtrend, you will
get the original and most authentic Tosowoong brush for only $20! It’s cheap
enough I think, because it works really great to your skin according to the
reviews I’ve read. How could you not invest $20 on brush for your skin’s health
but spend $50 on a cheek brush to apply blusher…it doesn’t really make sense,
eh?

I would likely buy this
one very soon and I will tease my mom to get one too for this brush is doing
magic. Can’t wait to try~

(by the way, the wish
list is still growing – and I start to get confused which one to get first.
OMG.)

Natural sponge! Yay for
natural sponge! You may not know for I have been a facial sponge lover all
these times. I love facial sponge to clean/dry my face because it’s very gentle
– and believe it or not – it helps to soothe and calm my acne and face
irritations due to its gentle and soft texture. Tosowoong also have these
facial sponge which are made of sea creature (some kind of coral, I bet?) and
is very, very interesting. It’s highly rated and well raved, so how could I, a
facial sponge freak, restrain from this one?

Unique lip tint indeed,
eh? The lip tint itself is separated into two layers, the top one is
moisturizing avocado oil and the bottom layer is the color pigment itself. You can
use it without shaking the product for a vivid color or you can shake and use
it for a regular lip tint finish. It’s very moisturizing – due to the reviews –
thanks to the avocado oil! As a lip product junkie, how can I miss this one?
*wink wink*

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And
that’s all my wishes from Wishtrend! Have you got an eye on the products above
too? I suggest you to troll around their site and find yourself the things you
need. I am most curious about Klairs Gentle Black Sugar Scrub and the Tosowoong
Natural Sponge, maybe I would get those two first for this month. What about
you? Have you started to list down your wishlist out of Wishtrend?

Don’t
forget that they also offer free shipping for the bestselling products. Ugh. What
a great deal it is. I might have more on the list but…let’s keep it simple this
time, okay? A simple wish from my wallet. It cries hard now.